“Customers must use Internet Explorer for any CIPRO transaction. To download it, click here.”

Why exactly users need Internet Explorer is not entirely clear because the site appears to still work even if you’re using another browser. There may well be sections of the site that don’t work unless you use Internet Explorer but they’re not immediately obvious.

You would think that having already spent R90 million of a planned R153 million on a new enterprise content management system CIPRO could at least have done something about browser compatibility so its website was in line with SA FOSS policy.

Of course, now that the tender has been annulled, any work that was done on improving CIPRO’s website is unlikely to be seen any time soon.

I have concluded that the S.A. Government is helplessly caught in the Microsoft cage, and is not about to come out, in spite of claims they make in policy documents.
The people will have to do open source themselves, and as usual, the government is always lagging behind.